Project Lead

About the Role

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for a Project Lead opportunity in Johnson City, TN. The role involves leading multiple concurrent engineering and design projects supporting DOE facilities, nuclear facilities, and related infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent engineering and design projects.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design teams, including civil/structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls (I&C), piping, and other technical disciplines.
• Develop and maintain project execution plans, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Establish project priorities and coordinate resources across multiple projects to meet client commitments and project milestones.
• Serve as a key interface with clients, project managers, engineering leadership, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, technical performance, and deliverable quality, proactively addressing risks or emerging issues.
• Coordinate preparation, review, approval, and issuance of engineering calculations, specifications, drawings, design packages, technical reports, and other project deliverables.
• Ensure projects comply with DOE requirements, nuclear quality expectations, client procedures, codes, standards, and project-specific requirements.
• Support design control, configuration management, document control, change management, and quality assurance processes.
• Identify project risks, technical challenges, resource constraints, and schedule impacts, developing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Manage scope changes and support development of change requests, estimates, proposals, and schedule adjustments.
• Coordinate interfaces between engineering disciplines, ensuring design inputs, assumptions, requirements, and interfaces are clearly defined and documented.
• Support procurement, construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and field activities as required.
• Maintain clear project documentation and provide accurate status reporting to clients and company leadership.
• Promote a strong culture of nuclear safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline. Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years of experience supporting engineering, design, construction, or technical projects, preferably within a heavy industrial construction environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and design projects.
• Experience managing multiple projects, work packages, or task orders simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of project scope, schedule, budget, risk, change control, and resource management.
• Experience coordinating engineering deliverables and formal design review processes.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers, designers, project controls personnel, quality assurance personnel, clients, subcontractors, and field organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to establish priorities and manage competing project demands.
• United States Citizenship.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries.
• Multiple individual and family benefit options including paid time off, medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance.
• Pre- and post-tax 401(k) retirement account with Company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1.

Other Job Requirement: United States Citizenship